Either do World War Z or do another zombie movie. Enough of this crap. "It's going to take the surreal harshness of war from Saving Private Ryan with a twinge of teenage angst from Twilight and blend it with the uplifting character study of Driving Miss Daisy. Oh, and add in the universal family appeal of The Muppets with a wry sense of self deprecating humor like Scooby Door."

It's pretty damn simple - make a documentary-style movie in the same vein as the book. Stop trying to "punch it up" andy make it some damned Brad Pitt action vehicle. Why does Hollywood feel the need to bastardize one of the great novels of the last generation?

You want a director who can pull it off? Get Ken Burns.

I'm looking forward to this. Loved the book. But since this is a movie, and no doubt will be different, I'll wait for a trailer before I shit all over it (but probably won't, since I love zombies).

Potential trilogy is a very exciting prospect.

Shut up! Shut Up! Shut Up! Nooooww!!!

Release date has been pushed back:

http://dailydead.com/world-war-z-rel...ed-until-2013/

7 weeks of reshoots ordered.

From the DailyMail:

Brad Pitt’s big zombie movie, World War Z, sounds like it needs the kiss of life, and not just because it’s about the living dead.

Pitt has joined his fellow actors on locations in Budapest, where World War Z will go through seven weeks of additional shooting.

The picture started filming nearly a year ago and then wrapped last summer — but clearly director Marc Forster and his producers aren’t happy, because seven weeks is a long time to re-shoot a film.

Details are sketchy and it’s not certain whether or not the film’s other stars, Matthew Fox and James Badge Dale, are with Pitt for the new shooting schedule.

World War Z is based on Max Brooks’s novel World War Z: An Oral History Of The Zombie War, told from the point of view of a UN inspector issuing a post-war report on a decades-long battle against flesh-eating zombies.

The film had originally been scheduled for release this December but has now been put back to June next year.

good god. What is up w/ that guy's face next to the sign?

Also..jesus....

Wow. Between this and GIJOE 2, Paramount is really shitting their pants. Guess John Carter and Battleship really put the fear of flops into them.

Is that the Turtleneck Lady from The Killing next to Pitt?

Why I believe it is.

Damn. Seven weeks is a long reshoot.

Still looking forward to a big budget Zombie movie, though. I'm a sucker for Zombie flicks. Even the bad ones. And Pitt doesn't put out too many stinkers. His star power seems to have enough clout to make the crappiest movies work (I doubt there'd be a seven week reshoot if it were a Jim Caviezel movie or something).

Also, if anyone cares, World War Z had a celebrity packed audiobook made. I think that it skipped some of the stories. Most of it is on Youtube. I listened and had a good time.

7 weeks? Wow, they're shooting it over again.

Yup. Linden is one of the most unattractive leads I've ever seen, but she cleans up well.

/\ Does everyone know who her husband is?

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Seven weeks isn't a "re-shoot", it's a "re-boot".

SHUT UP! Don't give them any ideas!

Well, there are plenty of stories. Even at a brisk pace, I'd imagine that they'll be around 20 minutes each.

I assume you haven't read this thread. One of the reasons there is such a backlash against this film is because it's not following the format of the book.

From IMDB:
"A U.N. employee (Pitt) is racing against time and fate, as he travels the world trying to stop the outbreak of a deadly Zombie pandemic."

The way to do this properly would have been as a faux long-form Documentary (think Ken Burns) on HBO.

Contagion 2.

I've always thought the same thing. The book is essentially a pastiche of Studs Terkel, and the adaptation should have been a pastiche of Band of Brothers: interviews with the "actual survivors" wrapped around dramatizations of the "actual events".

That would be fucking awesome.

Wow, you can film an entire movie in 7 weeks. Hopefully they can fix whatever it is they're not liking.

Can't wait for the 5 hour directors cut

Maybe they were so excited over what they saw they went back to shoot more, more, more! Ya never know...

7 weeks of reshoots almost makes it sound like a whole reel got lost/overexposed or something...but they're shooting digital these days, right? Either that or a lead actor got the axe and they're reshooting all his/her stuff.